The Wizard of Oz [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Loew's Incorporated ; produced by Mervyn LeRoy ; adaptation by Noel Langley ; screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf ; directed by Victor Fleming.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
70th anniversary, 2-disc special ed., Standard version.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., col. and b&w (sepiatone) ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: Disc 1: Feature film; commentary by historican John Fricke; restoration featurette; illustrated video storybook; supporting cast profile roundup; sing-along feature. Disc 2: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the making of a movie classic', TV special; 'Memories of Oz', TV special; making-of and retrospective featurettes; Harold Arlen's home movies; tornado tests; outtakes and deleted scenes; extensive stills & theatrical trailer galleries; audio jukebox of recording sessions, radio shows and promos. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. French track: mono. English tracks: Dolby digital 5.1; mono. Based on the novel "The wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick.
Summary:
Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in Kansas, but is one day caught up in a tornado and lands in Oz, somewhere over the rainbow. She sets out to find the Wizard to help her get back home.
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